The Toronto Maple Leafs Expand Craig Berube’s Staff with an Additional Coach
Marc Savard, a powerplay specialist, has joined the Toronto Maple Leafs coaching staff.
Since the Toronto Maple Leafs hired Craig Berube, there have been persistent rumors about him. On Sunday afternoon, the team confirmed the rumors by announcing that Marc Savard had joined the coaching staff.
In addition to returning coach Mike Van Ryn, Savard joins the Toronto Maple Leafs during an off-season that has seen the addition of Lane Lambert and Berube to the bench.
Days after it was revealed that special teams coach Guy Boucher would not be joining the team again, the decision was made.
Van Ryan was the only player to return to the bench after the club parted ways with Sheldon Keefe, Manny Malhotra, and Dean Chynoweth.
The Toronto Maple Leafs Have Added Another Coach to Craig Berube’s Staff Samard had spent one season in St. Louis as a member of Berube’s coaching staff in the past. The former star of the Oshawa Generals was in charge of the powerplay while sitting behind the bench for the Blues in the 2019–20 campaign.
Following a single season, he was appointed head coach of the Ontario Hockey League’s Windsor Spitfires. During his inaugural campaign, he guided the team to the OHL Championship, where they were defeated in seven games by the Hamilton Bulldogs.
Savard returned to the NHL as an assistant coach with the Calgary Flames at the beginning of the previous season, having spent two seasons in the OHL with back-to-back 44-win seasons. Just like in St. Louis, he handled the powerplay.
Savard is expected to take over Boucher’s role as the driving force behind the Maple Leafs’ powerplay in the upcoming season. Hopefully, we can observe something other than the drop pass that happens automatically.
In the middle of the 2000s, Savard was a fantastic offensive player who scored 96 and 97 points in a row. From 2006 to 2009, the Ottawa native scored 90 points a year on average over four seasons.
Over the course of his 13-year NHL career, Savard played in 807 games and scored 706 points, including five seasons with 20 goals or more. When Matt Cooke struck him in the head in 2010, he suffered a concussion that ended his career.
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